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Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 46

I did not like the look of that blister, and I pressed it down with my thumb.

Who acts: I · What happens: not like, press down · To what, where: look, fish

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

nsubjauxadvmoddetobjcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjparataxisobjcompound:prtcasenmod:possoblpunctrootIPRONdidAUXnotPARTlikeVERBtheDETlookNOUNofADPthatDETblisterNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJIPRONpressedVERBitPRONdownADPwithADPmyPRONthumbNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 likensubj
2diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 likeaux
3notnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 likeadvmod
4likelikeVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 lookdet
6looklookNOUNNumber=Sing4 likeobj
7ofofADP_9 blistercase
8thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem9 blisterdet
9blisterblisterNOUNNumber=Sing6 looknmod
10,,PUNCT_13 pressedpunct
11andandCCONJ_13 pressedcc
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 pressednsubj
13pressedpressVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 likeparataxis
14ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 pressedobj
15downdownADP_13 pressedcompound:prt
16withwithADP_18 thumbcase
17mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 thumbnmod:poss
18thumbthumbNOUNNumber=Sing13 pressedobl
19..PUNCT_4 likepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not likepast · do-supportIthe look of that blistervn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot look=Theme
2press downpastIfishwith my thumbvn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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